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Obama’s Wishful-Thinking Syria Policy

His attack on critics is hard to take seriously. The U.S. needs to change course.

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William A. Galston

Oct. 6, 2015 6:14 p.m. ET

Syria, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in her recent book “Hard Choices,” is a “wicked problem”—a situation that confounds standard approaches and policies. Nonetheless, she has long advocated greater involvement than President Obama has been willing to endorse.

Last week this disagreement moved from a chapter in Mrs. Clinton’s memoir to the center of the Democratic presidential nominating contest. On Thursday she said: “I personally would be advocating now for a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try...